Sitting on the deck overlooking Possum Kingdom Lake in the early morning just before sunrise, I closed my eyes to pray. When I opened them there was a glow in the eastern sky, and half of the stars had disappeared. The morning came gently. It was neither hot nor cold with very little wind, as the eastern light grew.

All our language about the sun”rising” and “setting,” poetic and descriptive as it may be, is, of course, inherently mistaken, as the sun doesn’t move around the earth. With all our learning and knowledge, our language about the simple cycle of day and night is opposite to the reality. It has remained unchanged because the appearance is so much more obvious than the reality. It’s impossible to measure the number and kinds of “one off” impressions we have of the whole created world and of our Creator Himself.

There is a book that is multiple thousands of years old that informs and reforms and inspires people today and has inspired people for all those years. The Bible is transformative, and enriches and enables it’s readers to live lives full of grace. All ages of people read it, and some return to regularly. It teaches that selfless love exists and is the very character of the Creator of the universe. The message, so simple, is presented to complicated human beings who sometimes spend lifetimes denying it, or trying to reinterpret it.

Nevertheless, in three words the apostle John wrote the simplest of facts: God is Love. (1 John 5:8) John’s words are not the only ones to reveal the truth. In fact, he is late on the list of those who experienced his truth: “I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known.” In regard to David, the psalmist quoted the Lord: “I will maintain my love to him forever.”(Psalm 89:1 &28) Love and timelessness are linked in the Bible. Both the old and the New Testaments extoll the enduring love of God. St. Paul wrote in Romans 5: 8, God demonstrated His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus had previously told his disciples, “ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but receive eternal life. (John 3:16) The God of life so loved humanity that He allowed His son to die a human death so that through believing in the son all others could be reunited with his Father, and their Father. God is Love.

Love in Him,

Prue